Alleged human trafficker to serve jail term

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40 year old Blanca Rodriguez, said to be wanted by INTERPOL for alleged involvement in human trafficking, was today read a charge of failure to comply with conditions of a visitor’s permit in the No. 3 Belize City Magistrate’s Court.

Rodriguez pleaded guilty and began a six-month jail term after being unable to find the money to pay a thousand-dollar fine imposed by Magistrate Leslie Hamilton.

Immigration authorities say they were alerted of Rodriguez’s presence in Belize by their INTERPOL colleagues. Their records indicate she received a visitor’s permit for four days after entering Belize through the western border.

That time had expired by the time she was picked up around 11:30 Monday morning in the Sunset Park area of Western Paradise village, Belize District, at mile 8 on the George Price Highway.

Rodriguez is expected to be sent back to her native Honduras at the end of her jail sentence.

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